THE ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY OF CONVENTIONS: Habit, Custom, Practice, and Routine in Market Order

By N. Biggart, Thomas D. Beamish. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Regional worlds: from related variety in regional diversification to strategic coupling in global production networks (2020, background): “Grounded in then the French conventions theory (for reviews, see Biggart & Beamish, 2003; Thévenot, 2001), Storper (1997, p. 136) argued that high-performance regions are characterized by a qualitatively distinct set of political–economic cultures, social institutions and behavioural routines of…”
Performance measurement, modes of evaluation and the development of compromising accounts (2013, background): “Conventions can help to bridge different perspectives by providing an acceptable compromise between competing value frameworks (Biggard & Beamish, 2003; Denis et al., 2007).”
Entrepreneurship Amid Concurrent Institutional Constraints in Less Developed Countries (2016, background): “…enterprise is a social endeavor and is more commonly guided by compensating informal institutions or relational mechanisms of economic exchange (Biggart & Beamish, 2003), such as the use of cultural conventions, family and political connections, or other forms of context-specific contracting…”
A Market Mediation Strategy: How Social Movements Seek to Change Firms’ Practices by Promoting New Principles of Product Valuation (2013, background): “At the same time, convention theory has been highlighted as a viable theoretical alternative to network theory and institutional approaches for understanding the market order (Biggart & Beamish, 2003).”
Building Inclusive Markets in Rural Bangladesh: How Intermediaries Work Institutional Voids (2012, background): “According to the sociology of markets literature, markets and their supporting institutions are built through rules, conventions, and the codification of meaning in the form of standards (Beckert, 2007; Biggart & Beamish, 2003; Fourcade, 2007).”
Towards a general theory of implementation (2013, background): “These specify the rules and roles that frame action, and the group processes and interactional conventions [80] through which action is accomplished.”
Importation as innovation: transposing managerial practices across fields (2005, background): “Archival data and retrospective interviews are inadequate data sources because individuals tend to forget, and organizations rarely record, the details of past interactions and formation of ideas (Barley, 1986; Biggart and Beamish, 2003).”
Knowledge and valuation in markets (2009, result): “This latter idea resembles what is argued by the French school of the economics of conventions (Boltanski and Thevenot 2006; Woolsey Biggart and Beamish 2003: 455–457).”
Environmental Certification of Forests in Mexico: The Political Ecology of a Nongovernmental Market Intervention (2006, background): “Often called convention theory,5 the approach is much less than a complete theory of human behavior in markets, but rather is a framework of analysis for evaluating the social construction of quality (Wilkinson 1997; Murdoch, Marsden, and Banks 2000; Biggart and Beamish 2003).”
Identifying impediments to SRI in Europe: a review of the practitioner and academic literature (2008, background): “Indeed, classic themes in economic sociology such as ‘conventions’ are used to explain the organization and stability of market capitalism (Biggart & Beamish 2003).”
Implementation, context and complexity (2016, background): “There is a substantial body of research in organisational and economic sociology, going back 40 years, that has explored this insight [43–45].”